In a few years he had issued thousands of fines, in an extremely rigid way. And Trenitalia had fired him citing "just cause".

Story of "Mr. B", sixty years old, on duty in the Venice compartment, a commuter nightmare and now reinstated by the Supreme Court judges who have decided that, after all, he was only doing his duty, albeit in an "extremely meticulous" way.

The Venetian conductor had issued about two thousand travel tickets on the convoy, after having first issued as many fines. Many of the tickets issued on the convoys, however, 175 - just 3.5% of the total, was his defense - were wrong in the amount.

So Trenitalia in 2017 claimed that the employee had caused damage to the image of the company and also damage to the tax authorities, about 9,800 euros.

The "king of fines", however, had resorted to the labor judge against the dismissal, the company in turn opposed it in all levels of judgment, and in the end the case reached the Supreme Court. Which proved the employee right, calling on the railway company to reinstate him in service.

In the sentence the supreme judges described him as a man of "uncommon zeal, inflexible and extremely meticulous in raising fines", a controller with "zealous intransigence". A conductor who, in short, will also be "inflexible and extremely meticulous" but without "exclusive purposes of profit or in bad faith against the company".

(Unioneonline / D)